Leuven International Short Film Festival (LISFF) is an annual Academy Award® Qualifying international short film festival, taking place in December. The festival was launched 20 years ago out of the enthusiasm and need of a group of young filmmakers to find an audience for their works. In 2014 LISFF celebrates its 20th anniversary. During the 9 festival days LISFF presents and promotes new work and talent to the audience and professionals, continuing these visibility and awareness creating efforts through the year via theatrical distribution (+-75 single films in the catalogue + compilation programs – 3 new compilations in 2014 confirmed), VoD (+-85 films in the catalogue in 2013), TV-sales and releases on DVD/Blu-ray (3 DVD’s planned in 2014). The festival is a showcase and meeting place, an important talent-scouting event and launching spot, a place to discover, learn and discuss. Film literacy initiatives and educational projects are organised during the main event as well as afterwards during the year, organising an extensive program of workshops, masterclasses and other professional activities, also providing didactic materials for schools. As a well-known quality label for short films, the festival is the most important gatekeeper and ambassador for short film in the Benelux. Attracting more than 16.000 visitors in 2013 for one of its screenings, also during the year, the festival expects to have a steady growth of about 15% in audience numbers in 2014. The 2014 festival program will consist of about 210 short films, and divided in about 15 different competitive and non-competitive programs, compiled into about 40 feature length compilations. The competitive sections contain only European works, showing the future film talent of Europe. Almost all the films on the program will have their world -, European- or Belgian premiere at the festival, making this a high quality, quite unique program which shows the diversity and quality of European film making.